The only catch with content that's free to view online is that you have to deal with advertisements. For most consumers, this is a necessary evil and have just gotten use to viewing ads when watching online content. If...

The only catch with content that's free to view online is that you have to deal with advertisements. For most consumers, this is a necessary evil and have just gotten use to viewing ads when watching online content.

If that's the case with you, then you should checkout the Crackle iPad app that offers a nice amount of movies, and TV shows for free. Now this is no Netflix, but if you don't have time to deal with all that Netflix is going through, and just want to catch a couple minutes of programming to pass the time, then the selection of content on Crackle should suffice. There is nothing fairly new with the exception of some special features, clips, and behind the scenes looks at content from Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics and more.

From Seinfeld, to Boys 'N The Hood, to Snatch, to Starship Troopers, to Resident Evil, there is enough variety to keep you busy. Like I said, before each show or movie, you'll get some ads, and at pretty equal intervals during. I checked out the app and I was impressed at the library of Anime titles available. There were some cool TV shows that I missed out on that were present, as well as being able to sift through some episodes of my favorite TV shows. You will want to make sure you're connected to a solid WiFi network. Tethering from a non-LTE device or using 3G to stream content from Crackle is not advised.

Again, most people looking for free content online are willing to grin and bear the ads in addition to maybe not getting content hot off the press. Crackle takes that into consideration, and puts together a nice app with some decent content that will keep you entertained for [ad-supported] free